I smile and pat him on the head and I don't need to see to know he flinched but I pretend I didn't notice as I ask him to start cutting the meat. He finds a record player and we find the records to be classical but it didn't really matter as it broke the silence between us. We ate dinner and he cleaned up while I went to my office. I was happy that all I had to do was activate my chakra and the scroll I had written last night came to life for me.

"You do realize that blind people can't read words right?"

"So you think Naoya-kun but I assure you just because I'm blind that it does not mean that I don't have my ways." I sense light a fire before he picks out a scroll from the library and sits down in the leather couch to read. I continue writing about my findings today and other ideas that came to me.

I felt a chill later on and I showered my chakra to find out the fire went out so I restarted it and grabbed a blanket to put on the sleeping boy as I grabbed the scroll out of his hand. I sat down on my desk and put the scroll there before an idea came to me. I grabbed the scroll Naoya was reading and I opened it and laid it on the desk. I concentrated my chakra to infuse with the scroll and then the words before I activated my chakra like before. I sat back and grinned at the words that came forth as they crawled up my palm and into my body where I absorbed the scroll. I sat back and closed my eyes as the words of the scroll flashed before my darkened sight.

I wrote down my discovery on my scrolls but after I began taking scrolls from the shelf and absorbing them and I was pleased to find my absorbing and intake became faster and more efficient.

I hear birds singing and I decided that will be my alarm clock as I get up and ready breakfast for Naoya-kun. I got to my room and sleep for three hours since my body is use to so little sleep and great amount of chakra use for healing. I'm refreshed as I head back down stairs. I find Naoya sitting on the stool eating the breakfast I made as I pat on the head on my way out.

"Good morning Naoya-kun." I don't say anything about him flinching at my touch.

"Morning."

I find my way to the grass yard as I begin my mediation.

'Good morning my lovely flower-"

I smile as I feel Kira hit the ground with Yuki's punch and she starts scolding him.

"Good morning Hinata-chan, how did everything go last night?"

"Good Yodo, will you help me train today perhaps?'

"Of course I'll get them trimming the plants around here and we'll go into the forest so we won't be disturbed."

'Thank you."

I listened as Yodo gave them instructions on this mornings chores as he led me to a clearing.

"Hinata I'm going to make a seal on this paper and put it on your back, I thought about what this activity should entail as well. The seal will act as a magnet as I will use sponge darts as the weapons as this is your first time."

"So I'll be in the middle of the clearing with a magnet for sponge darts to come flying at me?"

"Hai, sounds like fun huh?'
"Yup, can't hold back the excitement."

I listen to him walk 20 meters in front of me and I can feel him opening up the seal to summon those darts before I'm being pelted. It doesn't matter where I go as they keep hitting me, I panic and trip as I protect my head in my hands.

'Concentrate Hinata! Don't let it break with one fall! Get up!" I try to concentrate and just for that second when I figure out that all the darts have a seal on them as well. I can sense them since Yodo used chakra to seal them I start dodging them.

They start coming at me in all directions and my focus is getting stronger as I actually start flipping toward Yodo so I can get this seal off my back.

"Enough." They stop and I land in a crouch.

"That was good, your concentration on chakra is prefect but what I want to do is wean you off that by using your other senses, are you with me?" I nod and I feel another summons then I'm hit by a pillow and knocked on my ass.

"I want you to stop me from hitting you with this pillow using your other senses, you have high quality senses but you need to use them. Concentrate on sound like you do your chakra vision and see if hear the pillow coming.

I do what I'm told and after I get knocked down countless times I manage to block one then another then another but he threw a twist in.

"Great, you're going to scar me from pillow fights forever." I hear a chuckle and I flip toward it but there's no one there so I try concentrate on the smell and just before the pillow lands I bend backwards. He comes again but this time I feel the wind breaking as the pillow comes toward my head. I block and roll. This continues till he can no longer hit me with the damn pillow and the kids call our names for lunch.

We eat as the kids start talking about their academy and funny stories about their families. But my real focus was on Naoya who seemed depressed but I'm guessing he didn't show that on the outside.

"Wah! Sensei do we really have to pull all the weeds out?"

"Hai Kira now go, Hinata-chan and I are training."

'Ah really? Can I watch?"

'If you get done."

We got back to the meadow and we return to the darts but this is a whole new ball game that I really, really suck at. The kids come and watch and I can sense their confusion but I my focus stay on my task. And this time we're using kunai.

"Oh sensei what are you doing to my wife?"

"Why doesn't she quit? One of those could hit wrong and kill her!"

"I don't know."

I ask Yodo to show me how to activate the seal and he agrees as him and the other two head home but I stay put. I don't know how long I've been at it till I hear Naoya's voice yell at me.

"Will you quit already!" I stop the seals as I turn to face the direction of Naoya.

"Something wrong?"

"Why do you keep going for so long? It's dark out!"

"Ah gomen, I'll make you dinner then." I pat his head on the way in and I can tell he's too angry to flinch.

"That's not what I meant."

"Then please explain."

"Why do keep going, you're only hurting yourself! Why are pushing your limits so far?'

I wash my hands and start dinner trying to think how to word this to him but I just give up with the whole think before you speak and go with what my heart says.

"Hmm I think pushing your limits is apart of being a Nin. You have to push your limits in order to get to stronger."

"But you're not a Nin anymore! You don't have to do that kind of thing anymore!"

"True I am not but it's a part of me that I can't ignore my urge to get stronger. When I was younger I was always pushed to get stronger and when I got weaker I paid the price many times."

I watched his chakra and I saw he was anxious and slightly scared.

"What did sensei tell you?"

"He told me that we are similar."

"Feh how?" His anger didn't faze me as I handed him dinner as I didn't answer him we ate in silence of the music I had put on.

After dinner he cleaned up and I went into the office writing down discoveries and abilities before Naoya broke the silence.

"I'm not as strong as my brothers were; to him I'm a disgrace. My brothers and my mother try to protect me but he's the head of the family. I'm beat and sometimes I think I deserve it for being weak."

I feel anger at his father for making him feel this way, and I don't want to dwell on that because most of it was connected to my father.

"I was clan heiress."

"Was?"

"Ah, I don't have my eyes so I can longer be that person."

"You must have been strong."

"No, I was determined. I was very weak as a child from years of abuse of my clan and family. My mother died when I was five giving birth to my stronger and younger sister. My father hated me as he only acknowledged me to humiliate and torment me, the others spurned me for my weakness and rank. My… Cousin hated my because I was main branch and heir when he was side, he almost killed me in a fight once. In the end I had no one but myself and I got weaker everyday no matter how long of hard I practiced. I watched everyone get stronger but by that time I was finished with comparing myself to others as I focused on me. As years went by my clan noticed my hard work and named me heir, people accepted me as their fellow Nin, and I was promoted. I almost had everything I wanted."

"What were you missing?"

"His acknowledgment."

"Who?"

"My cousin. He had a very hard life, his father died saving me when I was a child so he grew up in hate and anger. The only time I would see him smile was when he was alone and practicing his byakugan. To him his eyes were his only freedom, his only happiness."

"Anyway that's getting off topic isn't it?"

"You love him?" I gape at the boy before I laugh and shake my head.

"Of course not. Heh, if he heard you he'd be disgusted with the very idea. He hates me and has let me know on more then one occasion."

"I see. I don't understand why somebody wouldn't like you."

"There are a lot of people who hate me."

"Then they're the blind ones." I smile as he picks out his scroll from last night and begins to read as I absorb some scrolls about some medical herbs.

I get some sleep in but I'm out there before dawn activating those seals as the kunai make new wounds on me and my freshly healed skin. Pain really is nothing as I continue until noon where Yodo who had been watching deactivates it.

"Hinata-chan you're improving very quickly shall we up the speed a little?" He shows me how to change the seals ad then informs me he'll be taking the kids away for a week on a mission.

A week later

And I'm that spot in the meadow and I'm dodging the kunai that are coming from me at all directions with some thing akin to ease.

"Wow! My wife is so amazing!" I laugh and dodge as Yuki punches Kira into the ground as I deactivate the seal.

"Thank you Kira-kun."

"Hinata-chan you truly live up to what I've been told." I smile at Yodo before I pat Naoya on the head as I head back to the yard.

"Hopefully that's a good thing then."

"Ah she told me you were a very gifted student."

"I had many teachers but she did teach me much of my knowledge in the medical area."

"Ah who are you guys talking about?"

'An old sensei, the one who asked Yodo to take care of me."

"Ah Hinata-chan I think we'll switch to sebons tomorrow."

"Goodie." I smile as the kids start telling me about their mission but it isn't long before they go home leaving Naoya and I alone. I head to my office out of habit and start writing and an hour later Naoya brings in my dinner.

"Oops, sorry Naoya, I'll cook tomorrow." I smile at him sheepishly.

"Its fine, I'll cook since I'm supposed to be working for you and from the looks of it you're busy." I smile and pat the boy on the head but this time I'm surprised he doesn't flinch. I get back to my research on the scroll I found about seals and chakra.